You don’t need a dedicated app to turn web pages into PDF documents on your iPhone or iPad. That’s because Apple has built-in options that let you do just that right out of the box.
Save a Safari website page as a PDF
1) Open Safari on your iPhone or iPad and visit the webpage you want to save as a PDF document. Scroll to the bottom to ensure all text and images have loaded properly.
2) Tap the three dots icon, followed by Share. Or, if you’re using the Bottom tabs layout, tap the share icon directly.
3) Tap Options under the web page title and site address, select PDF, and tap the checkmark icon. The currently visited webpage will be turned into a PDF document. You can also select Reader PDF to strip ads and other unnecessary elements from the document.
4) Now, tap Save to Files to add this PDF to iCloud Drive or the local storage. You can also use AirDrop or one of the other options visible here, like Mail, Messages, WhatsApp, Slack, etc., to share the webpage as a PDF document.
In addition to the above steps, you can use the usual print trick to turn the web page into a PDF and save it.
Why is this useful
For starters, you might want to save a webpage as a PDF in order to attach it to an email message. I’ve been building a personal archive of various web resources in PDF form for years and can envision using this nifty little feature on a daily basis.
But why stop there? You can use this in select third-party apps that implement iOS’s native Share controls and work with content that can be exported as a PDF.
No matter how you look at it, it does feel like Apple’s implementation of this feature has some untapped potential.
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